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NFA Needs Your Help!

Do you want to support the new CBA? Would you like to take action and participate in the final stages of its ratification? We need you! Please consider participating in the public comments section of the upcoming Board of Regents meeting at UNLV on November 30th at 4:55 p.m. in support of the CBA. Click here to receive all the details via email. Thanks again for your support.


What is CSN NFA?

CSN-NFA is the collective bargaining organization for full-time teaching faculty, counselors, and librarians employed at the College of Southern Nevada. We are proud members of Nevada Faculty Alliance and affiliates of the American Association of University Professors’ Collective Bargaining Congress. For 36 years, since its incorporation in 1983 as a 501(c)6 professional membership organization, NFA has upheld the AAUP rights and values of academic freedom, tenure, shared governance, and due process at the eight colleges and universities comprising the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Our Story

The CSN-NFA chapter has helped its local members resolve employment disputes on salary, scheduling, supervision, etc., and navigate grievance and discipline procedures, providing limited legal assistance as warranted. Through public meetings, newsletters, workshops, and its members’ participation in Faculty Senate and various college and department committees, CSN-NFA has always supported faculty’s voice in shared governance and advanced faculty professionalism and high standards of academic excellence, thereby improving educational opportunities for CSN students.

In April 2016, with a majority vote of the full-time academic faculty saying “Yes!” to unionizing, CSN-NFA became NFA’s largest collective bargaining unit. On April 23, 2020, we made history for our dues-paying members and all our bargaining-unit faculty when we concluded first-contract negotiations successfully! 


Why Join Us?

If you are a full-time CSN academic faculty employee, you already belong to CSN-NFA’s bargaining unit. As your authorized bargaining agent, CSN-NFA owes you fair representation: you will benefit from a negotiated contract in the same ways that dues-paying members of NFA will. Nevada’s right-to-work law ensures that anyone who wishes to reap the no-cost benefits of others’ unionizing efforts can do so without suffering discrimination. 

Even so, personal choices have political effects.  Becoming a dues-paying member of CSN-NFA helps faculty shift the balance of power in favor of our workplace rights. Adding your name to CSN-NFA’s membership roster and AAUP partnership proves you do care to protect your own interests in such employment issues as salary equity, base pay raises, fair and transparent due process in discipline and grievance actions, and impartial third-party arbitration for contract enforcement.  Above all, your CSN-NFA membership tells everyone you care enough for your profession, your colleagues, and your students to unite in one voice that strives to improve our working conditions and our students’ learning conditions. (Press button below for download fillable form and email back.)